liz wrote:I know I am the odd one in this forum. A rescued bird remembers where he came from and how he was treated. They come to me scared and I just ignore them and let them be in the flock. I can only touch a few of them but others can touch me. They accept me as their human and a few are starting to come to me like Tommy does to get kisses. That is as long as my hands don't show.
Even so, we are bonded.
I have had rescued parrots too. I personally find that if they are fairly young they come around a lot faster but when older, and if they have had a lot of abuse they may never allow much touch.Right now the only older rescued parrot around is my daughters Senegal who is about 19. She has rehomed very well, but it took time she was afraid of every noise and would dance in fear when the shower was on, when the dishwasher was on. She was afraid of conures because the last place she had lived there were two conures that had ganged up on her. But she realizes my daughters conure keeps his distance from the pois so she is no longer afraid of the conure and she leaves him alone. She loves humans, but is afraid of any light coloured hair person or gray haired person if their hair is down. My daughter is a blond and has to put her hair up or the Sengal is afraid. We have theories of why that may be....Maybe the women who had dementia and had to be put in nursing home had bad days and left her hair down and when she had a good day she put her hair up? But the Senegal was well socialized at some point and kept it, so she loves my daughter and will ride on her husbands shoulder too, and she likes me, but she has a hate on for my daughters Meyers. Someone at some point had taught her to dance. if you sing to her she dances to it and she loves to be sung too.
Glad you got the problem fixed and are back Liz.